University, the sponsor, and in particular could in particular, the allied you president for her support. I want to thank my friend and , ourague Ralph Engelman faculty coordinator. As many of you know, our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk. The correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Year, now in our 71st 3125g bestowed as of today prizes. In keeping with his legacy, our judges honor reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Who are doggedse in their investigations, resourceful in their tactics, and intrepid in overcoming the odds, whether it is sending dispatches from a battlefield or exposing corruption at city hall. We like stories that hold power to account, that reveal things that deserve to be revealed, and that carrie and impact that carry an impact. Received 561 submissions. Mary. With big stories in syria, afghanistan, and libya. The uprising in hong kong, chinas repression of the uygers ebola,pr
Talk about reporting during wartime, both domestically and internationally. John good afternoon and welcome. Im john darnton, the curator of the george polk awards. It is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor, and in particular, dr. Kimberly klein, liu president , for her unflagging support. I want to thank my friend and colleague ralph engelman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know, our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk. The cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. We are now in our 71st year, having bestowed as of today 3125 prizes. In keeping with his legacy, our judges honor reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. We seek out those who are dogged in their investigations, resourceful in their tactics, and intrepid in overcoming the odds, whether it is sending dispa
press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin
this 21 year old guardsman he joined in 2019. he s very new to this and he was a cyber transport. systems journeyman. he was essentially responsible for i t for this particular wing of the air national guard in massachusetts. so it is totally unclear at this point whether he had access to these documents himself, whether he took them how he printed them if he even printed them himself. just a lot of questions here that investigators are going to be looking at jake as they look into his background and motive. i don t think of the idea. the question is about being 21. i think it s a question of like he s obviously if his story is to be believed. incredibly immature. so why would somebody who s immature if that s preferential language to your friends at the pentagon. why would he get access to the classified documents? natasha bertrand at the pentagon for us, thank you so much. i want to bring in a maliki brown. he s a senior story producer on the new york times visual investigations team
that you just ran right? the new york times knocks on his door. i mean, i just, you know, i ve spent a lot of time around the intelligence community a lot of time around the fbi. i spent a lot. you know, i have a lot of respect for them. but the new york times beat the fbi to this person right? and the reason that serious is because what if he has suitcases full of documents, and he s in the process of sort of sending them out, mailing them out, faxing them out. what if he hands all those documents to the to the new york times? now we ve got sort of an interesting constitutional issue. and so you know, i m still as you can tell. not exactly a calm about that fact. and then, of course, is the fact that this is apparently allegedly 21 year old kid air national guardsman who was trying to impress his friends. this is not exactly beijing and russia s best cyber operators doing here and so clearly, there s an awful lot of work. a lot of lot of congressional oversight work we need to do to f